How to Use maiden name in a Sentence

maiden name

noun

• After she divorced, she took back her maiden name.
• Suzanne Hall was the maiden name of Ezra F. Vogel’s first wife.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2020
• The gold in the shield alludes to her maiden name of Goldsmith, while the red, white, and blue come from the British Union Jack.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 28 Mar. 2018
• Ant Anstead's last name and returned to her maiden name: Haack.
  — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 17 Feb. 2021
• My mom’s maiden name is Rose, and the scent of my childhood was always rose.
  — Marshall Heyman, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2022
• The company’s name comes from the maiden names of each of their mothers.
  — Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2019
• She is best known by her maiden name and byline, Ida B. Wells.
  — oregonlive, 15 Jan. 2021
• Last month, Stause filed to have her maiden name restored.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 6 Aug. 2020
• The last Moreland, which was my maiden name – the last Moreland to make any money died in 1784.
  — Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Mar. 2021
• Aldrin’s mother, whose maiden name was Moon, took her life in May 1968.
  — Hal Boedeker, orlandosentinel.com, 2 July 2019
• The man saw her maiden name, Ruis, on her profile and told her to go back to Mexico.
  — Esmeralda Bermudez, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
• John and Nettie bestowed one of their sons with her maiden name: Robert Wright Lee, born in 1902.
  — al, 17 May 2021
• In July, Stause filed to have her maiden name restored.
  — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 3 Sep. 2020
• There are a few entities that asked a couple of decades ago for my mom’s maiden name.
  — cleveland.com, 10 July 2019
• Going solely by his mom’s maiden name offers him a chance to start fresh in a new state.
  — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 2 Sep. 2020
• My maiden name was Lins, so that’s probably where that comes from.
  — Jane Larkworthy, The Cut, 4 Apr. 2018
• Her mother, Agnes, whose maiden name was Borland, was a nurse.
  — J.m. Lawrence, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
• Many were not surprised by the decision to drop the 117-year-old moniker, which is the maiden name of the wife of the company's founder, John F. Queeny.
  — Caitlin Dewey, chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2018
• Both boys have Cahill as their middle name, which is their mother’s maiden name.
  — Riley Hamel, The Arizona Republic, 11 Aug. 2022
• My mother’s married and maiden names are both spelled wrong.
  — Lara B. Sharp, Longreads, 21 May 2018
• Christina, 41, is asking the court to restore her maiden name.
  — Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 16 July 2024
• Caitlin Everett worked for the Dallas police for four years under her maiden name Caitlin Rochelle, the records said.
  — Martha Bellisle, ajc, 14 Aug. 2021
• After Shelton, 45, introduced his wife, 51, by her maiden name, the No Doubt alum had the cutest tease.
  — Tomás Mier, PEOPLE.com, 16 July 2021
• Chrishell filed court documents to change her last name back to her maiden name, per Us Weekly.
  — Women's Health, 30 May 2023
• Meanwhile, Knight honors the maiden name of Jeremy's mom, Amy.
  — Mckinley Franklin, Peoplemag, 22 Jan. 2024
• Blake — her maiden name is Kalinka — grew up in Riga, Latvia’s capital and largest city.
  — Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Apr. 2018
• Her mother, Tina Knowles, gave the singer her maiden name to keep some semblance of her family name alive.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2024
• Barrett figured Maher might be Karen’s maiden name and searched for her with Joe’s last name.
  — Meryl Kornfield, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2022
• Borus, then ranked No. 149 in the world and known by her maiden name, Annie Miller, was a few years further along in her budding career.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2022
• Christina also appeared to change her last name from Haack (her maiden name) to Hall on her real estate license.
  — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 16 July 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024